Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Elk Hunting What is your rifle of choice this season

Have a 1-7 223 Christensen Pistol in the mail. Going to be my timber gun this year.

https://www.eurooptic.com/Christens...-223-Remington-105-1-7-801-11040-00.aspx

A 336 in 308 MX, or a 356 ER

Or a 99T in 300 savage

Mountains of Tucker County WV Thanksgiving week. .308 Kimber Classic Select/Kimber Montana 7mm08. If like last year I will have my best luck with a Nikon D850 + Sigma 150-600. Its a great week no matter what/how I "shoot".

Dakota M76 340 Weatherby in an Echols Legend stock

I burnt all my elk vacation hours on a 3 week trip to Alaska.

so technically speaking..... I used an Abu Garcia 6500 on a Pro Angler medium heavy..... caught lots of salmon on it too.

Kimber 84L Classic .30-06, 180 gr Hornady CX or if opportunity presents itself Ruger Super Blackhawk .44 mag HSM 305's for deer, fall bear and maybe cow elk.
Wife will be using a Ruger American 7mm-08 that I recently restocked with a B&C, huge improvement for that rifle.
If I get to bowhunt in Sept, Diamond SB1 with Slick trick broadheads for deer/ bull elk.
If I'm not tagged out by late season, Pedersoli .50 cal flintlock w/ Lee REAL's for cow elk.
CZ 457 .22 or ruger single 6 .22 mag for forest grouse. Or bow with a judo point.
Benelli Montefeltro or Win Model 12 for pheasants and sage grouse, Benelli for ducks.
LMT MRP 5.56 for coyotes, Ruger 7mm-08 for wolves.

I think that about covers it, no pronghorn tag this year, again.

Going to keep using my .26 Nosler on a Remington 700 Action I built couple years ago. Hope to get my second elk with this rifle to see if it turns out to be the right choice for a "one rifle for everything" gun... pretty sure my son will be toting my Pre 64 338 WM again...

I’ll be with my kids for deer and elk. Loving life

I will have my old faithful Tikka T3 06
My daughter TC venture in 270 win.
My boy kimber hunter in 6.5 CM
Back up rifle in camp tikka t3x SL in 6.5

I'll be using a Montucky Flatland Descent in 6.5 CM...

Browning X Bolt Pro in 300 WSM with my Kimber Montana 30-06 as backup

I'm poor and boring. My Marlin XS-7/VX-1 3-9x40 in .308 likes the green box 150's. The combo has worked for bear, deer and hogs, so I'm sticking with it for the spike season. Got a RAR in same caliber with same scope in case something breaks, but it hasn't let me down yet.

I have changed my mind on 2023's elk medicine. Instead of 105gr bthp I'm going with 108eldm's.

Fieldcraft 6.5 CM and Kimber Classic 7 SAUM both got used last year. A new Seekins Element 7 PRC will be first up this year. Might even use factory ammo...

Hah! You must have the combination to my safe! I'll be using either 143ELD-X or 140 Partitions. Good luck to us.

Will be shooting my new to me pre64 M70 30-06. Shooting 168gr TTSX.

A 20” Rem 700 in 35 Whelen wearing a SWFA 1-4 IR 250gr @ 2600

A new to me Browning A-Bolt in 338wm with a Meopta 3-9 200BT @ 3000

And I’ll also use a 1953 mod 70 in 30-06 with 165TSX @ (~3000) or 150TTSX @ (~3100)

My other rifle that needs to draw blood is a 1965 model 70 in 7mm rem mag that was unfired when I inherited it and currently has 10 rounds down it. I put a Athlon BTR 2-12 on it and I need to play with it and decide if it’s staying 7mm or getting sent to JES to become a 338 or more likely a 358 Norma…

Custom 30-06 w/ 175 LRX at 2850. NF SVH 3-10 on top.

Montana in 7-08 always gets the nod.

Ruger Ultra Lite tanger in 260 Rem will be the backup

I'll take Dad's and Gramp's old 760s in .35 Rem and 300 Sav for a couple of walks

EDIT
Sorry, I didn't notice that the thread was in the Elk Hunting forum. Assumed it was in General Hunting. Anyway, first choice would have been the same.

I recognize those flatlands in the background. T/C Triumph .50 caliber for me, this weekend.

This 6.5 CM


or This 7mm PRC



Both are awaiting their suppressers release from ATF jail.